Saturday, June 21, 2008

Long list of URL shorteners

I recently went on a hunt for alternatives to tinyurl.com, just to see how many there are out there. The concept and implementation are simple. My company runs one, too—flq.us. As you can see, there are quite a few.

I'd like to recommend urlShort, which is both a service and an open source project. My goal with urlShort is to make it the best free and open source URL shortener, which can be used in a lot of ways whether it is Twitter, email, browsers, or anything else. Information is at http://u.mavrev.com/pro

http://u2s.inA Very New short URL service with new functionality...* Set number of times URL get accessed* set expiry date for each URL* make custom URL string* get full of details reports of the url statistics* auto delete can be set* make very very long URL to too shortenjoy... u2s.in

yi.tl is the first URL shortener to offer support for category tags. This unique service allows users to group related URLs and easily retrieve old links. To save time, the site will even make tag suggestions based on the URL being shortened.

BIGLY.US offer a reliable URL Shortener service with many free feature like ; Set a link expiry date, maximum uses and whether it's private or public, password protection, shorten multiple long urls at the same time. An advanced API, Secure Members Area, Short URL Statistics and for each url a QR code is generated which can be used to advertise the short url. http://www.bigly.us